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Menaka Guruswamy (born 27 November 1974) is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. She was the B.R. Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer at Columbia Law School, New York from 2017 to 2019. [2]
Experience: Supreme Court of India · Location: South Delhi · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Menaka Guruswamy’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
Mar 6, 2019 · As one of the lawyers who argued against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, she was instrumental in the scrapping of the law that made homosexuality a crime. Guruswamy had appeared on behalf...
Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju, who won a landmark LGBTQ rights case in India, are two of the most influential people in 2019, Priyanka Chopra writes.
Jul 20, 2019 · India saw a new ray of hope, thanks to the leading ladies - advocates Menaka Guruswamy (44) and Arundhati Katju (36) - who argued against the discrimination and violence that the LGBTQ community faced every day.
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Jul 8, 2019 · M enaka Guruswamy LL.M. ’01 got the news when she turned on her phone after landing in Hyderabad: The Indian Supreme Court had reached a decision on a years-long case she’d been arguing challenging Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a colonial-era law criminalizing gay sex as “carnal intercourse against the order of nature.”
Dr Guruswamy is amicus curiae appointed by the Supreme Court in a case concerning 1528 alleged extra-judicial killings by security personnel. In her private law practice she litigates in the areas of civil law, commercial law and white collar crime.
Dr Guruswamy is amicus curiae appointed by the Supreme Court in a case concerning 1528 alleged extra-judicial killings by security personnel. In her private law practice she litigates in the areas of civil law, commercial law and white collar crime.
Oct 31, 2018 · The historic Sept. 6, 2018 decision was a stunning reversal for a court that just five years earlier ruled against LGBT Indians, and stories of fear and discrimination from individual petitioners is what seemed to turn the tide, said Menaka Guruswamy.
